  Doctor Four My other vehicle is a TARDIS Premium join:2000-09-05 Dallas, TX
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1 edit | reply to Doctor Four Re: Another WinFixer infiltration...this time on www.wfaa.com
On the machines where I work at, IT hasn't gotten around to upgrading to IE7 on.
As for the attempt, the furthest it got was a redirect from the WFAA site to pcturbopro.com. I think it happened when I clicked the back button from More News 8 Investigates page.
When I saw it pop up, I figured the easiest way to get rid of it was to kill IE with the task manager.
I just tried it on another machine, one that doesn't have a hosts file on it. It came up on the Local News page after I reloaded it a couple of times. It was on Firefox on it, and I got rid of the redirect by killing FF in the task manager. Only this time it was Errorsafe. Not sure which ad is triggering it, though.
Edit: I sent them an email through their online comment system with links to SiteAdvisor pages on the WinFixer domains that I encountered. Hopefully that will prevent a less savvy user of the site who doesn't know what WinFixer is or the domains associated with them avoid getting infected. -- "The trouble with computers, of course, is that they are very sophisticated idiots." - Doctor Who (from Robot) We are the Hacker Collective: Resistance Is Futile - All Your AACS Keys Will Be Assimilated. |